Col. Harrumph
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Somewhere on the interwebs I ran into this page on Cylinder & Slide's site:
https://www.cylinder-slide.com/1911safetyck.shtml
I checked my pistol and it failed the first test: thumbing the hammer back ever so gently produced an audible click. C&S says this is the sound of the sear re-seating itself fully in the hammer hooks, which happens because the safety pushed the sear out of engagement ever so slightly.
How dangerous, really, is this condition? What's the fix? C&S's response to my query was to contact the maker for possible warranty work. The "maker" in this case is Turnbull Restoration, who did cosmetically beautiful work on my rusty veteran. I'm not blaming Turnbull for this, their expertise is, in the main, cosmetic. The gun may have had a dodgy safety since it left the Colt mill in 1918.
Oh yeah, the obligatory pics (bfore & after, for context):
https://www.cylinder-slide.com/1911safetyck.shtml
I checked my pistol and it failed the first test: thumbing the hammer back ever so gently produced an audible click. C&S says this is the sound of the sear re-seating itself fully in the hammer hooks, which happens because the safety pushed the sear out of engagement ever so slightly.
How dangerous, really, is this condition? What's the fix? C&S's response to my query was to contact the maker for possible warranty work. The "maker" in this case is Turnbull Restoration, who did cosmetically beautiful work on my rusty veteran. I'm not blaming Turnbull for this, their expertise is, in the main, cosmetic. The gun may have had a dodgy safety since it left the Colt mill in 1918.
Oh yeah, the obligatory pics (bfore & after, for context):
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